'Unseen' News and Views
Today [5 June 2019], PAX and ICAN have co-published a report showing how banks and pension funds are financing the companies involved in the production of nuclear weapons: Shorting our security- Financing the companies that make nuclear weapons. This is what you need to know:
5 June 2019 (openDemocracy)* – The first attempt at the democratisation of Afghanistan, known as the “silent revolution”, failed in October 1965. Up to April 1978, there were nine subsequent governments, also nowhere near being able to satisfy the basic needs of the population.
Minette (38) and her family fled from Manyu and sought safety in Buea after their home was burned down. They have received some plastic sheeting and utensils from NRC, and they have built a temporary kitchen at their new place in Buea. Photo: NRC/Tiril Skarstein
In a world where international relations have become “more chaotic,” world leaders must avoid a new Cold War, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told delegates attending the International Economic Forum, in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg on Thursday [6 June 2019].
6 June 2019 — An estimated 115 million boys and men around the world were married as children, 23 million of them before the age of 15, according to the first-ever analysis on child grooms, launched on Friday by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).*
Food safety is everyone’s responsibility and therefore everyone’s business. 5 steps we all must take to ensure our food is safe.
ROME, 6 June 2019 (FAO)* – The first ever celebration of the United Nations World Food Safety Day, to be marked globally on 7 June, aims to strengthen efforts to ensure that the food we eat is safe.
The World Bank has lowered its expectations of global economic growth for this year in a new report. It says that, although the picture for poorer countries is expected to stabilize in 2020, economic momentum remains weak.
– The world’s 10 most displacement crises—rendering millions of people homeless– have continued to worsen due either to political neglect, a shortage of funds or lack of media attention, according to a new report released by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council Jan Egeland visited Buea in South West in Cameroon Tuesday 23 April. There he met with a group of women who have been displaced by the mounting crisis in the Anglophone parts of Cameroon.
An in-depth dialogue between the founder of TRANSCEND International and rector of TRANSCEND Peace University and the founder-editor of the pioneering Peace Journalism website, TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS
Image by Andrew Neel/Unsplah
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Antonio: I have a question dear Johan. I see the world going to hell literally and figuratively.
Thousands of acres of crops have been destroyed in Syria’s Idlib and north Hama provinces amid ongoing deadly violence, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday [4 June 2019], in a call to the warring parties to stop using food security to hold people “hostage”.
In a briefing to journalists in Geneva, WFP Spokesperson Hervé Verhoosel expressed alarm at the humanitarian crisis in the north-western opposition-held enclave, where a Government-led military operation escalated in late April.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 